Yesterday Montreal’s La Presse published an editorial cartoon by Serge Chapleau depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the title character from the 1922 film Nosferatu.From the Montreal Gazette: La Presse has apologized after a cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire sparked outrage. The depiction, by veteran editorial cartoonist Serge Chapleau, […]
The possible unmasking of an anonymous right wing cartoonist by Mike Peterson yesterday may get him suspended from X/Twitter if the recent efforts to reveal the identity of cartoonist Stonetoss is any indication. From Mashable: Last week, Anonymous Comrades Collective, an online group that describe themselves as an “antifascist journalism collective dedicated to exposing Nazis, […]
Reading Alex requires you to recognize the strict compliance requirements in the British workplace, but this one works anywhere because the IRS similarly allows you to write off business lunches, including alcoholic beverages, but with rules, including that things not get too “lavish and expensive.”Being able to write off a large, expensive bottle of wine […]
Steve Brodner has been named the 2024 Herblock Prize winner (with portfolio). On choosing Brodner the judges said: Brodner’s work is unflinching, driven by a strong moral compass and imbued with a powerful sense of compassion. As the quote from Herblock engraved on the trophy reads, “Political cartoons, unlike sundials, do not show the brightest […]
The National Newspaper Awards have announced the finalists for works published in 2023. In the Editorial Cartooning category the finalists are Michael de Adder, Halifax Chronicle Herald Brian Gable, Globe and Mail Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald In their comments about the finalists the NNA notes: The Globe and Mail’s Grant Robertson (Bob Levin Award […]
Rick McKee offers a bit of a puzzler, because we seem to be locked in an endless argument over what Dear Leader said and what Dear Leader meant. Is it intentional? His fault? Our fault?Trump has plenty of trouble just reading from his TelePrompter, lapsing off into incoherent approximations of what’s written in front of […]
Cartoonist Paul Trap paid tribute to Terry and the Pirates with Milton Caniff‘s Pat Ryan and The Dragon Lady making an appearance in Thatababy today: Paul pirated (heh, heh) a couple panels from the October 10, 1936 Terry and the Pirates comic strip:
March 19, 1984 saw a new comic strip by Bill Holbrook syndicated to newspapers across America. The characters of On The Fastrack would change over the years with some taking on the starring role over others. On May 18, 2010 a character came into the strip who would take on that starring role. As Bill […]
Political cartoonists got a bit of a break in that they could draw cartoons about Putin’s re-election just about any time and then put things on autopilot and take a vacation when the election actually took place.But Patrick Chappatte makes a good point in that Putin himself seems to be on autopilot, neither caring about […]
Chance Browne, Sacred Heart Academy comic strips, Dummy magazine, Michael de Adder lecture, and Public Transport MagazineThe family/funeral home notice of Chance Browne‘s passing has been published. A link is added to our obit. ********** The Reord, serving the Catholic Community of Central Kentucky, has the story of student cartoonists.********** Welcome to dummy, a quarterly […]
Forget The New York Times or CNN/Fox/MSNBC or Encyclopedia Britannica or Wikipedia The Daily Cartoonist just got got used as a source in a more important learning tool – the Breaking Cat News comic strip! Georgia Dunn has, appropriately, Tabitha take on a special breaking news alert this week as BCN reports on the alarming […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) gets political this morning, and I’ll admit I can’t tiptoe around the general topic either. It’s not easy to avoid thinking about. My social media this morning consisted of a mix of leftover St. Patrick’s Day stuff — and I don’t intend to get into that again — and loads of […]
Between Friends cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy has created a Substack and the inaugural newsletter is a tour of her studio workplace which has a drawing table rather than a tablet for creating her comic strip. Next to my computer station is my drawing board…where I spend most of my time. Yes, I work traditionally. Yes, I […]
Michael Cavna, for The Washington Post, covers the disappearance of women cartoonists from newspaper pages. Michael talks to Hilary Price, Georgia Dunn, Stephanie Piro, Lynn Johnston, Karen Evans, and King Features President C. J. Kettler. Kettler, along with Stephan Pastis, talk more about the general State of The Art: “[A]re we in the same place […]
Constant Readers know how much I hate March 17, but that means I got a kick out of John Cole’s contribution to the day, because it’s entirely silly start to finish. Darby O’Gill and the Little People is not, by far, the worst Irish-American film ever shot, but it does play on sentimental archetypes and […]